Sean Mallon is Senior Curator of Pacific Cultures at the Museum of New Zealand/Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington.

Nicholas Thomas has been Director of Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology since 2006. He visited the Pacific Islands first in 1984 to research his PhD thesis on the Marquesas Islands and later worked in Fiji and New Zealand, as well as in many archives and museum collections in Europe, North America, and the Pacific.

His books include Entangled Objects (1991), Oceanic Art (1995), Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook (2003), and Islanders: The Pacific In The Age of Empire (2010), which was awarded the Wolfson History Prize.

Peter Brunt is Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington.